Does LWP::UserAgent download images

[himanshu.garg]

Hi,

Will the following code also download the images on
search.cpan.org, if any :-

require LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');

If yes, is there a way to avoid them. I want to minimize the
bandwidth the program consumes.

Thank You,
Himanshu.

 

[greymaus]

Hi,

Will the following code also download the images on
search.cpan.org, if any :-

require LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');

If yes, is there a way to avoid them. I want to minimize the
bandwidth the program consumes.

Thank You,
Himanshu.

Use WWW::Mechanize, a superset of LWP::UserAgent. read the docs.

 

[Ben Morrow]

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Will the following code also download the images on
search.cpan.org, if any :-

require LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');

No. LWP doesn't follow links to images, it just gets the URI you ask
for.

Ben

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Will the following code also download the images on
search.cpan.org, if any :-

It will get whatever resource you ask it to get. If you ask for an HTML page
then it will get that HTML page, if you ask for a picture then it will get
that picture. It doesn't care about the different content types.

jue

 

[himanshu.garg]

It will get whatever resource you ask it to get. If you ask for an HTML page
then it will get that HTML page, if you ask for a picture then it will get
that picture. It doesn't care about the different content types.

jue

Thanks for the replies. I don't have to worry about unnecessary image
downloads now.

Will also check WWW::Mechanize and the documentation of LWP.

Thanks,
Himanshu.